"He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential."

“My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.”

Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.391, Sheba Blake Publishing

“We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us”

“Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.”

Source : "Jenny Lewis made the move from child actor into music for the right reasons". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. August 30, 2016.

“God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.”

“In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I’m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters make emphatic pronouncements. They ball up their fists and state their goals out loud. ‘I will destroy Buchanan Enterprises,’ they say. ‘Phoebe Wallingford will pay for what she’s done to our family.’ Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder, I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. ‘You will be mine,’ I commanded.”

“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.”

“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”

“For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.”